n-i-m-a's comments

n-i-m-a | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (February 2025)

No salary reviewal in the past 3 years, from full-remote to 80% in presence with 1 weekend of advance notice, 2.5-3 hours of commute each day, impossible to find a place to park the car around the office... so yes... fire me please or perhaps I'll find something else before that happens.

n-i-m-a | 1 year ago | on: Gene behind orange fur in cats

My kitten had iron-deficiency when he was doing that. Maybe worth a quick check/ask and with a little bit of dietary change or a supplement the problem could be addressed.

n-i-m-a | 1 year ago | on: $8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating

Fiat Panda 4x4 isn't a bad off-road option.

n-i-m-a | 1 year ago | on: Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video]

What happens when neither candidate is your ideal candidate? In my country, it has been decades that people have had to choose between bad and worse. All handpicked by the "system" and not a single one being an ideal candidate for the "people".

n-i-m-a | 3 years ago | on: reMarkable 2

I never recall 1:1 pricing here in europe... everything was much more expensive. Whenever I could, I would ask relatives/friends from the US bring in things that I wanted.

n-i-m-a | 3 years ago | on: reMarkable 2

Did you consider VAT in that €280?

n-i-m-a | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Encrypt and hide files inside images

you can choose to send as document/uncompressed.

n-i-m-a | 3 years ago | on: “Please be our voice” - Message from students at Sharif University of Technology

Where exactly are you bringing these factually wrong facts of yours from?

n-i-m-a | 3 years ago | on: As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram, WhatsApp

I'm an Iranian living in Italy and have an Italian phone/WhatsApp number. Couldn't call anyone or receive WhatsApp calls to/from Iranian and non-Iranian numbers yesterday afternoon when the internet blocking started in Iran. It was like all numbers somehow in touch with Iranian contacts were blocked from completing calls. As soon as either side of the call would answer, the call would end with a message like you are connected via a network that has blocked WhatsApp or something similar.

n-i-m-a | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?

Similar scenario for me... countless accounts throughout various services, newsletter subscriptions, paid services/subscriptions, tickets, loan requests and confirmations, house deeds & ...

I have tried finding the numerous people throughout the world with the same name and surname as me and notifying them and asking them kindly to update their contacts or to stop using mine (name.surname@gmail scenario), some work, some don't.

At some point I even started canceling their appointments/subscriptions/closing their accounts, hoping they'd stop but apparently no use. Not a month passes without a few of these emails popping up in my inbox. The most annoying are when I am stuck in a group email with multiple recipients that are replying all.

n-i-m-a | 4 years ago | on: Milan confirms new cycling network linking 80% of the city to bike paths

As they did last year... There was quite some adapting for the drivers then and still confusing for drivers not familiar with these streets. Newly painted lanes with width that would vary every 50-100 meters (or less), random taxi/bus stops and parking being interchanged with the bike lane... Not easy for the riders nor the drivers...

n-i-m-a | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it?

While I might agree with the part that you said they act against other Italians as well, I can not agree with your 1st statement after 11 years of living here in Italy as a foreigner of non EU origin.

n-i-m-a | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language?

Persian native here. Every now and then I tell myself it's time to start translating some of the books that interest me and that haven't been translated already, but then I find myself reading some related books (translated to Persian/Farsi) and after seeing some of the ridiculous terms used for the translations, I just give-up and postpone the entire idea for some uncertain future.

I personally have to guess some of the meanings and for some other words/terms I need a Persian/English dictionary (not even sure if it exists or that I can find anything up-to-date) to figure out what the translator meant.

We have an "Academy of Persian Language and Literature" which comes up with "Persian" terms/words for most things but a lot of them will almost hardly ever be used even on public television which is (almost) entirely operated by the government itself.

I remember 11 years ago when I attempted to register a company there which the name had to be made-up of a minimum of 3 words and that I had chosen "digital" as one. They rejected the my request and asked me to use the equivalent term which wasn't even Persian and came from Arabic and that no-one even uses today. At the same time I remember there was a national competition about "digital" media with ads running on every tv channel using the exact word "digital" in them... Sent an email to the president of that academy which comes up with these translations and rules (also chairman of the parliament at that time) expressing my feeling, obviously never got a response nor anything changed. I never registered their proposed version as it would've just been a laughing stock had I gone with it.

n-i-m-a | 5 years ago | on: Office noise generator

Made my day! A nespresso machine would make it almost identical to our office.